On 06/15/2010 05:32 AM, Lisi wrote:
On Tuesday 15 June 2010 01:25:56 Andrew Sackville-West wrote:There are many many ways to make take backups beyond having a disk big enough to hold the data.Would you feel inclined to elaborate? I'm trying to solve this problem for my granddaughter's large HDD, and am not keen to have to buy a 300GB external drive. Tar would still require a fairly large medium. :-(
Certainly not a name-brand pre-built model!However, empty external enclosures can be had for less than $20 at all the regular mail order places. Just slip a "big" drive in there and bob's your uncle!
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